Watch: Republican gets slapped down after calling on committee to ‘look into’ Dem’s remarks
1 year, 11 months ago

Watch: Republican gets slapped down after calling on committee to ‘look into’ Dem’s remarks

Raw Story  

During a House committee hearing this Wednesday on the subject of Twitter's response to the Hunter Biden laptop story, Rep. Gary Palmer accused Rep. Dan Goldman of making a "very troubling statement claiming that as vice president, Joe Biden fired the attorney general of Ukraine." In his response, Goldman pointed out that he did not say Biden fired the Ukrainian official, only that it was "official U.S. and European policy to encourage Ukraine to fire him, which they did." Lauren Boebert throws screaming fit over Twitter's censorship of her 'freaking joke' Goldman said that if Palmer really wants to know about what happened with Ukraine's former attorney general Viktor Mykolayovych Shokin, all he has to do is read the New York Post story that was censored by Twitter. "Because in that story, Shokin admitted that he never opened an investigation into Burisma," Goldman said, adding that for "two years, Rudy Giuliani had been peddling Shokin's bogus story, including with agents of Russian intelligence."

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'We just played it!’ James Comer denial shot down when CNN plays clip of his own words
3 weeks, 2 days ago

'We just played it!’ James Comer denial shot down when CNN plays clip of his own words

Raw Story  

Congressman James Comer denied a central part of his investigation into President Joe Biden’s son on CNN Wednesday — but was played a previous TV recording of his own words that shot down his claims. “I never said he was a crucial part of the investigation,” he said on Wednesday, referring to Alexander Smirnov, an FBI informant who pleaded guilty …

'Backfired on them tremendously': GOP blamed for causing arrest of their key Biden witness
10 months, 3 weeks ago

'Backfired on them tremendously': GOP blamed for causing arrest of their key Biden witness

Raw Story  

Despite their attempts to find ammunition against President Joe Biden with their investigations into his business dealings, House Republicans' efforts have "backfired on them tremendously," namely with the arrest of ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov for making false claims about Biden and his son Hunter. "A former IRS official had claimed to the House that David Weiss, the U.S. Attorney for …

Prosecutor in the Hunter Biden case denies retaliating against IRS agent who talked to House GOP
1 year, 6 months ago

Prosecutor in the Hunter Biden case denies retaliating against IRS agent who talked to House GOP

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The federal prosecutor leading the investigation of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter is pushing back against claims that he was blocked from pursuing criminal charges in Los Angeles and Washington and denies retaliating against an IRS official who disclosed details about the case. In a two-page letter to House Republicans on Friday, U.S. Attorney David Weiss in Delaware …

Republicans expand their Hunter Biden investigation by seeking an interview with the lead prosecutor
1 year, 6 months ago

Republicans expand their Hunter Biden investigation by seeking an interview with the lead prosecutor

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Thursday requested voluntary testimony from nearly a dozen Justice Department officials involved in the investigation of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter as GOP lawmakers widen their scrutiny into what they claim is improper interference by the agency. Leaders of the Republican-controlled House Judiciary, Oversight and Accountability, and Ways and Means committees asked in a letter …

There are major holes in Trump lawyer's latest scheme to smear the Bidens: Impeachment attorney
4 years, 2 months ago

There are major holes in Trump lawyer's latest scheme to smear the Bidens: Impeachment attorney

Raw Story  

The House Democrats' impeachment attorney raised major questions about a New York Post report on Hunter Biden's dealings in Ukraine. The New York Postreported that Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at the energy firm Burisma in 2015, which the right-wing tabloid suggests is improperly linked to the Obama administration's efforts to get a …

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s false account of Ukraine episode
4 years, 11 months ago

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s false account of Ukraine episode

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump gave a false account Wednesday of some of the circumstances that got him impeached. Schiff did not say that Trump demanded that Ukraine’s leader “announce” an investigation during the phone call. After brief opening chatter about Zelenskiy’s election win, Trump quickly if obliquely raises a grievance: The U.S. has been good to Ukraine, he said, …

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s Ukraine defense collides with facts
5 years, 1 month ago

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s Ukraine defense collides with facts

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s defense of his actions with Ukraine collides with the known facts and the testimony of witnesses on multiple fronts as the impeachment inquiry moves into a new phase this coming week. THE FACTS: There’s scant evidence that Trump voiced concern about systemic corruption in Ukraine until he knew that word had gotten out about his …

The Latest: Defense official testifies on aid to Ukraine
5 years, 1 month ago

The Latest: Defense official testifies on aid to Ukraine

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Latest on President Donald Trump and the House impeachment inquiry : 8:25 p.m. Democrats controlling the panel conducting the impeachment inquiry have killed five Republican attempts to issue subpoenas for witnesses and documents, including the anonymous intelligence community whistleblower and Hunter Biden. Ambassador Gordon Sondland has finished with almost six hours of testimony in a hearing that …

Trump team pushed Ukraine for Biden investigation: Witnesses
5 years, 1 month ago

Trump team pushed Ukraine for Biden investigation: Witnesses

Al Jazeera  

Fiona Hill and David Holmes testify in the last of this week’s scheduled hearings of the Trump impeachment inquiry. Washington, DC – Two key witnesses told the United States House of Representatives impeachment inquiry that a number of officials openly pushed Ukraine for partisan investigations with the knowledge and backing of President Donald Trump as US military aid was being …

Impeachment Witnesses Shed Light On Giuliani's Role In Ukraine
5 years, 1 month ago

Impeachment Witnesses Shed Light On Giuliani's Role In Ukraine

NPR  

Impeachment Witnesses Shed Light On Giuliani's Role In Ukraine Enlarge this image toggle caption Susan Walsh/AP Susan Walsh/AP Get Caught Up Congress heard from four witnesses in open impeachment hearings today. Here's what you need to know: Lawmakers questioned Kurt Volker, a former State Department envoy to Ukraine, and Tim Morrison, a former National Security Council aide, National Security Council …

Ukraine leader felt pressure to investigate Biden before Trump call, sources say
5 years, 1 month ago

Ukraine leader felt pressure to investigate Biden before Trump call, sources say

LA Times  

Despite his denials, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was feeling pressure from the Trump administration to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden before the July phone call with President Trump that led to impeachment hearings. The briefings showed that U.S. officials knew early that Zelensky was feeling pressure to investigate Biden, even though the Ukrainian leader later denied it in a …

READ: State Department Official David Holmes' Impeachment Inquiry Testimony
5 years, 1 month ago

READ: State Department Official David Holmes' Impeachment Inquiry Testimony

NPR  

READ: State Department Official David Holmes' Impeachment Inquiry Testimony Enlarge this image toggle caption Jose Luis Magana/AP Jose Luis Magana/AP On Monday evening, House committees released the transcript of a State Department official who testified in the impeachment inquiry Nov. 15 that he overheard the president tell the U.S. envoy to the European Union that he was seeking political investigations …

Trump impeachment: Republicans request Hunter Biden and anonymous whistleblower appear as witnesses in hearings
5 years, 2 months ago

Trump impeachment: Republicans request Hunter Biden and anonymous whistleblower appear as witnesses in hearings

The Independent  

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The Latest: Witness describe Trump dealing with Ukraine
5 years, 2 months ago

The Latest: Witness describe Trump dealing with Ukraine

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Latest on President Donald Trump and the House impeachment inquiry : 8:45 p.m. Key White House officials told impeachment investigators that President Donald Trump’s deal with Ukraine was a straight-out trade: If Ukraine’s new leader wanted an Oval Office welcome he would have to open a public probe into Joe Biden and his son. Lt. Col. Alexander …

White House Policy Official Corroborates Ukraine Narrative — But Saw Nothing Illegal
5 years, 2 months ago

White House Policy Official Corroborates Ukraine Narrative — But Saw Nothing Illegal

NPR  

White House Policy Official Corroborates Ukraine Narrative — But Saw Nothing Illegal Enlarge this image toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Updated at 5:03 p.m. ET A key White House policy official corroborated other witnesses' accounts of the Ukraine affair in a closed-door deposition on Thursday but said he didn't view President Trump's actions …

New Trump Impeachment Witness Shakes Up White House
5 years, 2 months ago

New Trump Impeachment Witness Shakes Up White House

The Quint  

Vindman says in the prepared testimony that a senior US diplomat close to Trump, ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, was the first person he witnessed pressing Ukraine for the investigations, in a 10 July meeting with Ukraine national security official Oleksandr Danylyuk. Sondland emphasized the importance that Ukraine deliver the investigations into the 2016 election, the Bidens and …

Top Ukraine Expert Reported Concerns About Trump's July Call With Ukraine President
5 years, 2 months ago

Top Ukraine Expert Reported Concerns About Trump's July Call With Ukraine President

NPR  

Top Ukraine Expert Reported Concerns About Trump's July Call With Ukraine President Enlarge this image toggle caption Mark Wilson/Getty Images Mark Wilson/Getty Images The top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council repeatedly raised concerns with his superiors and lawyers about President Trump's demands that Ukraine investigate former Vice President Joe Biden. Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who is a …

Donald Trump views Ukraine as 'adversary, not ally', claim witnesses in impeachment probe
5 years, 2 months ago

Donald Trump views Ukraine as 'adversary, not ally', claim witnesses in impeachment probe

Firstpost  

Behind closed doors, President Donald Trump has made his views on Ukraine clear, ‘They tried to take me down.’ Washington: Behind closed doors, President Donald Trump has made his views on Ukraine clear: “They tried to take me down.” The president, according to people familiar with testimony in the House impeachment investigation, sees the Eastern European ally, not Russia, as …

Ukraine to review cases on gas firm linked to Joe Biden’s son
5 years, 3 months ago

Ukraine to review cases on gas firm linked to Joe Biden’s son

Al Jazeera  

Ukraine’s prosecutor-general says his office will revisit about 15 cases linked to firm where Hunter Biden used to work. Ukraine’s prosecutor-general said on Friday that his office is reviewing several cases related to the owner of a gas company where former Vice President Joe Biden’s son sat on the board, as part of a review of all the criminal cases …

Ukraine will review probes into owner of gas company linked to Biden’s son
5 years, 3 months ago

Ukraine will review probes into owner of gas company linked to Biden’s son

CNN  

CNN — Ukraine will review previous investigations into the owner of an energy company linked to the son of former US Vice President Joe Biden, the country’s prosecutor general announced Friday. Ruslan Riaboshapka said his office was reviewing a number of cases opened by previous prosecutors, including probes into the owner of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company that …

Volker urged Ukrainians not to interfere in US politics after Trump call
5 years, 3 months ago

Volker urged Ukrainians not to interfere in US politics after Trump call

CNN  

Washington CNN — The former US special envoy for Ukraine told House investigators that he urged Ukraine’s leadership not to interfere in US politics in a conversation that followed the phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, according to two sources familiar with the testimony. Kurt Volker’s testimony behind closed doors seems to confirm the whistleblower description …

Dick Durbin: Why Trump’s handling of Ukraine demands investigation (opinion)
5 years, 3 months ago

Dick Durbin: Why Trump’s handling of Ukraine demands investigation (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Dick Durbin, a Democrat, is the senior US senator from Illinois. The report described “numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign.” One would think after such a dramatic finding that any American President would take the threat of foreign election interference seriously and reassure the nation that he really does put America, not a foreign …

Memo: Trump prodded Ukraine leader to investigate Bidens
5 years, 3 months ago

Memo: Trump prodded Ukraine leader to investigate Bidens

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — More than once, President Donald Trump brought up how much the U.S. has done for Ukraine. The White House released a rough transcript of the two leaders’ phone call Wednesday, and it showed that Trump repeatedly prodded Zelenskiy to work with the U.S. attorney general and lawyer Rudy Giuliani to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden. Then Trump …

Republicans On Trump-Ukraine Call: This Is Fine
5 years, 3 months ago

Republicans On Trump-Ukraine Call: This Is Fine

Huff Post  

WASHINGTON ― It is one of the most stunning revelations about the Donald Trump presidency: Trump asked a foreign leader to investigate a political rival, and he even seemed to suggest that the reward for doing so would be $400 million in military assistance. “I think it’s within his scope of responsibility as the chief executive in the fiduciary to …

Donald Trump's 25 July conversation with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky released: Transcript shows president pushed for Joe Biden investigation
5 years, 3 months ago

Donald Trump's 25 July conversation with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky released: Transcript shows president pushed for Joe Biden investigation

Firstpost  

US president Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with the US Attorney General William Barr to investigate the conduct of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company, and offered to meet with the president at the White House after he promised to conduct …

The Mueller probe was a dead end for Democrats. Ukraine looks much more promising
5 years, 3 months ago

The Mueller probe was a dead end for Democrats. Ukraine looks much more promising

LA Times  

After months of talk about a wide range of possible grounds for impeachment, House Democrats are preparing to make a narrow case to the American public that the president should be removed from office for seeking the help of a foreign country to interfere in the 2020 election. Trump’s acknowledgment that he withheld congressionally approved aid from Ukraine while pushing …

Trump asked Ukraine’s leader for a ‘favor’ — help investigating Joe Biden and a California company
5 years, 3 months ago

Trump asked Ukraine’s leader for a ‘favor’ — help investigating Joe Biden and a California company

LA Times  

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shakes hands with President Trump during a meeting in New York on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. President Trump directly asked Ukraine’s president for a “favor” while discussing U.S. military aid to the besieged country, according to a White House memo of their July 25 phone call, suggesting a link that could be crucial …

Trump-Ukraine memo: What it says, what we know and don’t know
5 years, 3 months ago

Trump-Ukraine memo: What it says, what we know and don’t know

Al Jazeera  

A look at what the call summary between US President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart says – and what it doesn’t. President Donald Trump repeatedly prodded Ukraine’s new leader to work with lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the US attorney general to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden, according to a memo summarising a July 25 call that was released on …

Trump pressured Ukraine’s President to investigate Biden’s son
5 years, 3 months ago

Trump pressured Ukraine’s President to investigate Biden’s son

CNN  

Washington CNN — President Donald Trump pressed Ukraine’s president to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son during a call earlier this summer, a person familiar with the situation said Friday. The Wall Street Journal was first to report that Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during the July phone call to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter, …

Trump’s alleged attempts to force Ukraine to meddle in 2020 election being investigated, as party moves forward on impeachment
5 years, 4 months ago

Trump’s alleged attempts to force Ukraine to meddle in 2020 election being investigated, as party moves forward on impeachment

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As the party outlined a series of steps it hopes will take its impeachment …

Rudy Giuliani pushes Ukrainian state investigation that could muddy Biden's son
5 years, 8 months ago

Rudy Giuliani pushes Ukrainian state investigation that could muddy Biden's son

Daily Mail  

President Donald Trump went back to handicapping the Democratic presidential field, declaring it a two-man race between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, as his lawyer Rudy Giuliani called for the Justice Department to investigate Biden. Trump elevated Biden, who leads in early national polls as well as a new New Hampshire poll, as his lawyer Rudy Giuliani defended a coming …

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